Thank you.
Thank you to all the officials for being here.
I just want to make a comment before I start.
When I first started on the public safety committee back in 2016, I and my assistant Ellen were the only two women in the room. Every member and every official, and everyone sitting out there, was a man. It's quite something to see elected officials and representatives of the department being far more diverse than it was when I first sat on this committee. That was just an observation I made when we all sat down.
Commissioner, I saw on social media a post from a Conservative candidate talking about cuts to the RCMP. It was in response to an email that I guess you had sent to members. Can you confirm that regular uniformed members of the RCMP have been excluded from the responsible government spending initiative?